It’s been four weeks since the 2017 Mark Gunter Photographer of the Year Awards commenced, and in that time we’ve been amazed by the quality and quantity of submissions – just check out our best of week 1, week 2 and week 3 posts from the last few weeks. Every picture entered in this competition has been a celebration of road cycling in its myriad forms, and a wonderful tribute to the life and work of the late Mark Gunter, who passed away suddenly from oesophageal cancer in 2015.
But as the year draws to a close, so too do the 2017 Mark Gunter Photographer of the Year Awards, which end on January 4th, 2018.
If you haven’t yet entered, the clock is ticking – Enter now. It’s not just an opportunity to showcase your photographic flair – you could also be sharing in some fantastic prizes, thanks to our generous sponsors – Trek Travel, Specialized, Olympus, Shimano, Silca and Stages.
ENTHUSIAST:
1st place: Specialized Allez road bike
2nd place: Olympus PEN-F camera kit
3rd place: Silca floor pump
SMARTPHONE/ACTION CAM:
1st place: Trip to the Spring Classics with Trek Travel
2nd place: Shimano Dura Ace Di2 disc groupset
3rd place: Stages power meter
2nd place: Shimano Dura Ace Di2 disc groupset
3rd place: Stages power meter
And of course, the professional category is competing for the ultimate honour – the title of Mark Gunter Cycling Photographer of the Year 2017.
All entry fees support Tour de Cure, the Australian Cancer Research Foundation and Young Cyclist Development. Even if you’re not confident behind the lens, we encourage you to help these worthy causes in other ways – share the competition with your friends, or make a tax-deductible donation to cancer research.
Professional Category
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- Ian Walton – Strade Bianche Pro changing rooms.
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- Ian Walton – In the wheels at Strade Bianche. Wet, muddy, slippy. Inches off the bumper chasing back on.
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- Vincent Riemersma – Tom Dumoulin leaving the hotel for training in preparation for the new cycling season for team Sunweb.
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- Paul Davy – Peter Williams of One Pro Cycling ready to jump Dexter Gardias and Pieter Weening on the WORLD-famous Haworth Main Street cobbles at the Le Tour de Yorkshire.
Enthusiast Category
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- Craig Huffman – Tip Of The Spear – Chico Stage Race Men’s Pro:1 field out in the gravel during the Stage 2 Paskenta Hills Road Race near Paskenta, California, USA on February 25, 2017.
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- Josh Cunningham – Belittled by the sweeping hairpins and towering rock faces of the Dadès Gorges. Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
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- Jürg Zürcher – Borderline
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- Toshiki Sato – Riding high on cloud9. Mt. Norikura, Japan
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- Szymon Kotowski – empty Furka Pass at 8 am
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- Sarah Elizabeth Mosquera – Chasing daylight.
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- Roel Ruijs – Focus before The start, even by The follow Car. Dan Martin is about to start The Time Trial at The Tour de France, in Marseille
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- Neil Britto – Changing of the seasons, Fall in the Hudson valley in New York is one of my favorite time of the year to ride and enjoy the leaves changing colors
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- Nathan and Morleigh Schneeberger – Painter Philip Carlton (St. Paul, MN) captures the beauty and action of bicycle racing on canvas with oil at the St. Paul Grand Avenue Criterium at the Northstar Grand Prix.
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- Nathan and Morleigh Schneeberger – A photographer crawls into a torrent of flood water to take a photo of the Men’s field returning to downtown Colorado Springs at the 2017 Colorado Classic after a severe thunderstorm moved through the area.
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- Matthew Jurak – Poker Face – Wade, the master of the “Poker Face’. Despite being up to his neck in pain as he gives it his all to finish here, he exudes nothing but a cool, calm, and collected appearance. Never to be underestimated.
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- Martin Kelly – The 2017 Cyclocross Grand Prix at Fields of Joy Melbourne is a great spectator event. It seemed the only way to capture the drama on “The Hill” was to lay down in the mud and wait for the riders to make their descent. Stacey Riedel rocketed down with amazing ease and from the look on her face was loving it. Race commentator Norm Douglas and the crowd watched in awe. I left at the end of the day with clothes caked in mud looking forward to viewing the image I had caught.
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- Gruffudd Pugh-Jones – Into the darkness at the summit of the Stelvio
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- Giuseppe – Tuscany Trail in Siena, Italy. Bikes are not allowed to pass into the main square…
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- Galen Stilgebauer – When all you have is your road bike, you just have to make it work.
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- Galen Stilgebauer – Riding your bike is a great way to reflect on things
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- David Reyes – Bikation success measured in tanlines.
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- Chris Kendall – It can be lonely on the road. Connor Swift, Yorkshire Regional Championships.
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- Celine Hoogenboom – All the reason to be in the front – wheel spray to the max. White Plains Criterium, White Plains, New York.
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- Alan Schacter – Point Reyes National Seashore just north of San Francisco is an easy ride if you like ribbon like roads.
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- Alan Schacter – 2017 started off with lots of snow falling. In May 2017, Crater Lake in Oregon was still clearing out the Rim Road. Only 3 miles of the 33 mile loop was open then.
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- Aidan Murphy – Cooked; at the top of the Col d’Izoard.
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- Roel Ruijs – Roglic on The Galibier, making his way trough The fans. This story ends well… Roglic wins The 17th stage of The Tour The France
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- Mark Geary – Esteban Chaves, the Colombian climber on the Aussie Orica-Scott team has a permanent smile. It is even more prominent when he is greeting a young fan. This was just before the prologue of the 2017 HeraldSun Tour, Federation square, Melbourne. This has been my most popular photo of 2017.
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- Anthony Reeckman – Taken during The Herald Sun Tour this year,I liked the synchronisation of the Orica Scott Team’s pedal stroke.
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- Bob Cullinan – Norwegian cyclist Alexander Kristoff is surrounded by the local media in Bergen, Norway, but he is alone in his grief after losing the world road racing championship to Slovakia’s Peter Sagan…by just inches.
Smartphone and Action Cam Category
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- Lawrence Bywater -Campsite in a Slovenian meadow. Snapped by my touring amigo Tom Whitlam.
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- Will Riffelmacher – Big Sur Gravel Heaven.
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- James Beechey – Silhouettes in the winter solstice. Days are short at the moment in the northern hemisphere. Group rides help to keep the motivation high for the coming race season.
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- Graeme Langhorne – Winter Miles.
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- Graeme Langhorne – The Inner Battle. The beautifully brutal final 2k of Col du Glandon.
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- Chris Buonomo – Pedaling west Hwy 163 on southern Utah. In the summer of 2017 I rode my bike with a few friends from New York to Los Angeles. I took the summer off from racing and decided to make my move to the West Coast the best way I could think: on my bike. It’s a crossing many have made, but every ride is unique and its own right. Perhaps the most stunning moment was the ride into Monument Valley, a vast expanse of desert punctuated by soaring buttes weathered over millions of years. 38 days cross country
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- Michael Thompson – Shipwrecked! A passing boats wake splashes up through the half submerged jetty
What’s your favourite picture from this week’s entries?